5.2 Shape Recognition

With this program the shapes drawn on the touchsceen can be recognized as letters or numbers.

I found a few programs in the net, but only one that worked with sufficient success: xscribble (273.3 kb). The current version can be downloaded at http://www.handhelds.org/projects/xscribble.html

Unpack the tarball and change in its directory.
Make a directory /usr/local/xscribble
Move the xscribble executable and the folder classifiers to this directory.
Make a hidden link in your home directory to the classifiers directory:
cd ~
ln -s /usr/local/xscribble/classifiers .classifiers

Place the xscrib shell script any legitimate place in your path, e.g /usr/bin or /usr/X11R6/bin
and execute xscrib

This opens a little window that displays its current recognition mode. 'Mouse mode' means you can use the touchscreen as usual; any other mode transforms the drawn symbols to ASCII in the active window. By tabbing the little window you can change the mode.

A table of the recognized symbols can be found here.